How to fix the blurry menu display issue on Budgie 26.04 after upgrading to Chrome 150 by making it sharper

Budgie Desktop
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Share a method to clarify blurred menu icons in ubuntu Budgie 26.04 when upgrading to Chrome 150: After updating to Chrome 150, browser menus may appear blurry. Run the following command line or modify the menu icons accordingly.

google-chrome-stable --ozone-platform=x11

or

sudo vi /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U

Modified as follows:

Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --ozone-platform=x11 %U

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Google Chrome	150.0.7871.186 (Official Build) (64-bit) 
Revision	0fcdce5f4fdec8d442d7df760cb541f1ca6e446d-refs/branch-heads/7871_183@{#11}
OS	Linux
JavaScript	V8 15.0.245.21
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/150.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --ozone-platform=wayland --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --render-node-override=/dev/dri/renderD128
Executable Path	/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
Profile Path	/home/ubuntu/.config/google-chrome/Default
Variations Source	variations server
Command-line Variations
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Very interesting. I wonder why chrome is defaulting to need to run via XWayland to fix blurry icons?

If you force chrome to use wayland what happens?

I think its something like this to force wayland mode

google-chrome-stable --enable-features=UseOzonePlatform --ozone-platform=wayland

Mind you - according to this article, chrome should already be defaulting to wayland

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The 150 version has a bug; previous versions do not have this issue—forcing the use of Wayland will cause the menu font to appear blurry.